Complex identities : Jewish consciousness and modern art / edited by Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd.

Other author Baigell, Matthew.
Other author Heyd, Milly, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Jewish art.
Art, Modern--20th century. --Themes, motives.
Jewish artists.
Jews--Identity.
Judaism and art.

Contents Master narratives/minority artists / Norman L. Kleeblatt -- "With wisdom and knowledge of workmanship": Jewish art without a question mark / Elisheva Revel-Neher -- Graven images on video? The second commandment and Jewish identity / Margaret Olin -- Origins of the Jewish Jesus / Ziva Amishai-Maisels -- Jewish naivete? Soutine's shudder / Donald Kuspit -- Soutine's Jewish bride fantasy / Avigdor W.G. Posèq -- Man Ray/Emanuel Radnitsky: who is behind The enigma of Isidore Ducasse / Milly Heyd -- From International socialism to Jewish nationalism: the John Reed club gift to Birobidzhan / Andrew Weinstein -- Ben Shahn, the four freedoms, and the SS St. Louis / Diana L. Linden -- Jewish-American artists: identity and Messianism / Matthew Baigell -- Sacred signs and symbols in Morris Louis: the charred journal series, 1951 / Mira Goldfarb Berkowitz -- Perpetual tension: considering Richard Serra's Jewish identity / Hariet F. Senie -- R.B. Kitaj's "good bad" diasporism and the body in American Jewish postmodern art / Sander L. Gilman -- The Jewish Venus / Gannit Andori -- Secular culture and traditional Judaism in the art of Michal Na'aman / Haya Fridberg
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00040289
ISBN0813528682 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813528690 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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